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Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. -- Thomas Jefferson
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. -- Jill Lepore
In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing. -- Patton Oswalt
I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. -- Tom Stoppard
Either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics. -- Frank Tipler
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants. -- Sidney Lanier
As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda. -- Dan Pfeiffer
Childhood is a branch of cartography. -- Michael Chabon
Fiction is a branch of neurology -- J. G. Ballard
Exaggeration is a branch of lying. -- Baltasar Gracian
In the one branch he most needed -- Henry Adams
Geometry is the noblest branch of physics. -- William Fogg Osgood
The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly. -- Andrew Cohen
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. -- Frank Zappa
Banking is a branch of the information business. -- Walter Wriston
Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity. -- Tim Crane
Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature. -- Thomas M. Disch
Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss. -- Henning Mankell
I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology. -- Thomas Nagel
Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch. -- George Herbert
Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another. -- Margaret Atwood
Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence. -- Ann Plato
Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. -- Yasser Arafat
Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch. -- Dante Alighieri
[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government. -- Alexander Bickel
The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine. -- Max Lucado
On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening -- Matsuo Basho
That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling. -- Robert Jordan
Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. -- Sam Harris
I have a duty to protect the executive branch from legislative encroachment. -- George W. Bush
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. -- Freeman Dyson
Thank God for some Republican control of one branch of the government. -- Lindsey Graham
He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch. -- Lee Child
The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch. -- Plato
Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again -- William Carlos Williams
Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil. -- Aaron Hill
You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell. -- Publilius Syrus
LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman. -- Ambrose Bierce
The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery. -- Maria Monk
She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree. -- Marisha Pessl
We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor. -- John Engler
Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse. -- Terence McKenna
The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. -- George W. Bush
It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres. -- Lights
You fell off the tree of fucked-up-weird and slammed every branch on the way down. -- Vincent Zandri
No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch. -- Andre Gide
Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan. -- Margaret Sanger
No one branch of the U.S. government should have supremacy over the other two. -- Chellie Pingree
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall. -- Thomas Haynes Bayly
Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch. -- Anthony Marais
Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems. -- Milton Friedman
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision. -- Byron White
In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only. -- Alexander Kotov
We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way. -- Tony Abbott
The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle. -- Alexander Hamilton
That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things. -- Sophia Amoruso
Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose. -- Claudius Buchanan
Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? -- Don Williams
I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world. -- Rachel Dratch
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. -- Paula Spencer
On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins. -- King James I
Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? -- Don Williams
For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person. -- Vine Deloria Jr.
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. -- Arthur Machen
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics -- Benoit Mandelbrot
The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit. -- Rumi
Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities. -- Barton Gellman
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, but as they sway they connect at the roots. -- Rumi
Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off! -- Swami Vivekananda
Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir. -- John Keats
In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.] -- Ovid
All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. -- Jeremy Bentham
The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government. -- Todd Akin
The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid. -- Lyn Nofziger
Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them. -- Kent V. Flannery
Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth. -- Daniel Handler
Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how. -- Steven Levitt
The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch. -- Julius Streicher
...you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down. -- Jim Butcher
Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.. -- Mother Teresa
In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory. -- Martin Gardner
Walk into a Chase branch and we can give you so much quicker, better and faster. Like Wal-Mart. -- Jamie Dimon
You cannot teach a bird to fly, only how to let go his branch and begin to fall. -- Tim Ward
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.. -- Leonard Cohen
Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch. -- Rajneesh
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. -- Alan Watts
Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things. -- John Clapham
It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology. -- A.J. Ayer
Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning. -- Bertrand Russell
Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society. -- Ralph Nader
I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing. -- Richard Peck
I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other. -- Ice T
Optimism is not the ability to live on the highest branch. It is the faith to learn to fly. -- Wes Fesler
The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child. -- A. R. Rahman
Success can be attained in any branch of labor. Thereâ??s always room at the top in every pursuit. -- Andrew Carnegie
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch. -- Karen Maezen Miller
What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge. -- Joseph M. Juran
Donald Trump is speaking on behalf of the White House, of the executive branch of the United States. Credibility matters. -- Jonathan Karl
History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches. -- Lord Acton
Our executive branch does not believe in interfering with what the legislative branch chooses to do. We believe in federalism. -- Kellyanne Conway
They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy -- Jorge Luis Borges
The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God. -- Anne Sexton
Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze. -- Martha Ostenso
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. -- Isaac Asimov
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out. -- Eli Roth
Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress -- Jay Rockefeller
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. -- Francis Cornford
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. -- J. G. Ballard
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it. -- Simone Weil
No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it. -- Trey Gowdy
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take. -- Robert Zoellick
Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity. -- Bhartrhari
There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves. -- Saul Williams

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